{"id":19482,"date":"2012-09-28T12:22:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T19:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=19482"},"modified":"2012-09-28T12:22:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T19:22:29","slug":"last-month-in-hollister-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=19482","title":{"rendered":"Last month in Hollister, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Monocline Ridge<\/p><\/div>\n

September\u00a0was\u00a0my last full month in Hollister work for the BLM in Central California.\u00a0\u00a0 Mostly this month I have been continuing my work assisting with a seedbank study.\u00a0 We are hoping to determine the size of the seed bank in the soil for 2 endangered plants that we are tasked with recovering: San Joaquin Woolly Threads\u00a0 (Monolopia congdonii) <\/em>and San Benito Evening Primrose (Camissonia benitensis)<\/em>.\u00a0 During the summer we collected soil from the population areas and are now sifting the soil and (in the case of the Woolly Threads) extracting and couting seeds.\u00a0 Later in the fall, the soil of both species will be used to grow out seedlings which then will be counted.\u00a0 By knowing the size of the collection area and the amount of soil collected and used, an estimate of existing seed bank may be established.<\/p>\n

For\u00a0 my last post I wanted to include some of my favorite pictures from this field season that I haven’t had an excuse to put up yet:<\/p>\n

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Calochortus venustus<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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Echinoderm fossil<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ryan blazing a “trail” on Laguna Mtn. in search of T&E plant habitat<\/p><\/div>\n

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Chimney near the San Benito River<\/p><\/div>\n

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Clarkia unguiculata<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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boat on the San Benito River<\/p><\/div>\n

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Pestle found on Monocline Ridge sand dunes<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ravens<\/p><\/div>\n

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Penstemon azureus<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Good luck to everyone!\u00a0 Rachel, BLM Hollister, CA<\/p>\n

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September\u00a0was\u00a0my last full month in Hollister work for the BLM in Central California.\u00a0\u00a0 Mostly this month I have been continuing my work assisting with a seedbank study.\u00a0 We are hoping to determine the size of the seed bank in the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19482"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19660,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19482\/revisions\/19660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}